Bishop's Cumberland Minstrel Show photograph. Inscription on the back reads: "Bishops Cumberland Minstrels, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1864." Thomas Brigham Bishop was born June 29, 1835, in Wayne, Maine. At the age of 16, he began studying music. He...

Broadside advertising a performance of Harry S. Eaton's Original Colored Minstrels "for the benefit of the poor." The advertisement gives the price of admission and names H. C. Claiborne and Harry S. Eaton as managers.

Cover depicts caricatures of five African-American soldiers, three with bayonets, one playing a drum, and one holding a sign reading "Raw Recruits, Capt. Dan Bryant." They appear hapless and comically inept. They are lined up in front of tents in...